Light Attack Aircraft: The Super Tucano, the AT-6 and the Blue Kool-Aid
The competition for a light attack aircraft between the Sierra Nevada/Embraer A-29B Super Tucano and the Beechcraft AT-6 – formerly …
Conflicts & Operations
Hobart and His Funnies: A Most “Difficult” General
Among the many items on Gen. Sir Alan Brooke’s agenda upon assuming his duties as Chief of the Imperial General …
Vietnam: Nightmare World of a Wounded Soldier
America’s press, public, and even Congress paid relatively little attention to the experience of the wounded soldier during the Vietnam …
The Death of Jean Moulin: The French Resistance Gets Its Greatest Martyr
When Jean Moulin offered his services to Gen. Charles de Gaulle in October 1941, the leader of the Free French …
Interview With USS Constitution Commanding Officer Cmdr. Matt Bonner
Edward H. Lundquist: How you would describe your job and your command, USS Constitution, here in Boston.
Cmdr. Matt Bonner: …
Indian Carrier Aviation: No Longer the Only Game in Town
The Indian Navy likes to point out with respect to Indian carrier aviation that besides the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) …
The Surrender of Italy: The Allies’ Bungled Opportunity
Gen. George S. Patton called it “the unforgiving minute”– that moment in combat when opportunity for success at little or …
Outsourcing Strategic Airlift: NATO’s Two Very Different Solutions
In this age of coalition warfare and continuous global deployments, nearly every nation’s military regularly needs at least some strategic …
Operation Gomorrah
On the evening of Saturday, July 24, 1943, members of the German military mingled with civilians and prepared to enjoy …
The Smatchet: Fairbairn’s Other Fighting Knife
The Special Training Centre at Inverailort House near the remote hamlet of Lochailort on Scotland’s western coast is justly famous …